Hastings-Sunrise Doretta Lau “Sakiru Adebayo’s Wildfire Verses is

“Sakiru Adebayo’s Wildfire Verses is both grief work and an earth song—a critique of the Capitalocene that reminds us that we have left our multispecies world in a far worse state than ever before

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but on the ability to adapt both the rigorous outdoors of the Pacific Northwest and equally challenging human community of need

Hastings-Sunrise Doretta Lau “Sakiru Adebayo’s Wildfire Verses isDescription Hastings Sunrise is a love letter to a fleeting place and time. Bren Simmers's second collection captures her old East Vancouver neighbourhood in the midst of upheaval. As it is colonized by tides of matching plaid and diners serving pulled pork pancakes, condo developments replace the small businesses and cheap rentals that once gave the area its charm. Much like opening a set of nesting dolls, leafing through the collection exposes